Americas

Ohio House has introduced a solar bill that will accelerate the growth of community solar development under a state-wide pilot programme.

Crow Holdings has launched a renewable power arm, which will work to develop community solar projects and “mid-sized, utility-scale projects”.

Lithuanian software company PVcase has acquired US solar siting software platform Anderson Optimization.

US utility AES Corporation has added the 2GW Bellefield solar-plus-storage project to its portfolio after acquiring it from the project developer, Avantus.

PV Tech Premium caught up with Tristan Erion-Lorico, VP of sales and marketing at PVEL, to discuss the emerging trends and themes from this year’s scorecard

Danish renewables developer Ørsted has signed a recycling partnership agreement with Solarcycle to process and recycle the entirety of the modules in their US portfolio.

Utility-scale renewables developer Intersect Power has reached commercial operation of its 415MWp solar PV project in Texas.

The development-stage 490MW Duffy solar PV project near Houston, Texas has changed hands; nascent US independent power producer (IPP) Linea Energy has bought the project from London-based Horus Energy.

Danish renewables developer Ørsted has signed a 90MW virtual power purchase agreement )VPPA) with polymer manufacturer Covestro.

A round-up of the latest news from the floating PV market, including the US' "largest" floating PV plant, Akuo's floating project in France and Portugal's tender for FPV.